Maternity and labor markets : impact of legislation in Colombia

Borradores de Economia
Number: 
870
Published: 
Classification JEL: 
J08, J2, J3, J7, K31
Keywords: 
Human capital agglomeration, Social returns, Private returns, Externalities, Uncertainty, Fiscal policy

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Juan Esteban Carranza-Romero, Alejandra González-Ramírez, Mauricio Villamizar-Villegas

Our research seeks to determine the impact on female labor outcomes of the amendment on the Colombian labor law in which maternity leave was extended from 12 to 14 weeks (through Law 1468 of July 2011). To identify this impact we compare labor market outc